Technical Team/Minutes/2016-04-26

April 26, 2016

Attendees

• Gary O'Neall
• Bill Schineller
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Scott Sterling
• Kate Stewart
• Mark Gisi

SPDX Light

• Follow-up on David Wheeler's request for the ability to use SPDX documents without the file by file details
• 2.1 version of the spec helps some, but does not completely satisfy David's request
  • Text of the tag that specifies no file information included
  • Some additional information requested (see the email thread)
  • Yev will add as a bug to track

Review of April 5 actions

• External ID's
  • Need to update the document to include the regular expressions for all included ID's
  • Split regex into 2 columns - field descriptions and regex
  • Kate will take a pass at the table
  • Bill will verify the regexes (e.g. no spaces allowed)
  • Move into spec

2.1 Spec

• Kate will document spec
• Review bugs - next week - request for homework - review your bugs prior
• Will move to a new syntax for the SPDX spec on Git using AsciiDoc
  • Will generate HTML and PDF
  • Can move the tools over to GitHub as well
  • Supports translations
  • Same process used by Git Documentation

RDF terms inconsistencies in the relationship types

• Yev will make sure there is a bug

RDF terms documentation not in Spec

• Cardinality of disjunctive and conjunctive license terms
  • Already in spec based on the definition of license expression
  • Proposal to add the RDF examples or information to the license expression section
  • Alternative proposal - a separate section that describes the relationship between RDF and the expression syntax
• Use of NONE and NOASSERTION
  • Disagreement on whether NONE or NOASSERTION can be used in an expression
  • Mark will follow-up on a presentation on license expressions - May 10 meeting
  • Request for real examples where NONE and NOASSERTION can be found in an expression